Improvement in faucets



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Faucets.

l N0.154,8l4 Patented Spt'.8,1874.

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UNITED STATES PATENTA OFFICE.l

. JOHN VANDEEOAR, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN l-'Aucl-zrs.V

Speciication forming part of Letters Patent No. 154,814. dated September 8, 1874; application filed January 31, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN VANpERCAR, of

Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and-useful Improvement in Faucet-Valves, of which the following is a specification: 4

The invention will first be fully described, and then pointed out in the claim.

lligures l and 2 are side elevations, the iirst partly and the second wholly in section.

Arepresents a faucet, provided with the endscrew a, which is longer than the female thread b of the nut B. The latter has a flange, Bl, bywhich it is fastened to the outside of barrel-head D, and an inside ange, B2, to which is hinged the valve C, and attached its closing-spring E. This constructionl allows the channel in cock A to be automatically I claim as new, and desire t0 secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of nut B with a springpressed valve, C, hin ged thereto, Vand the cockscrew a, made longer than the female nut-thread b, as and for the purpose described.

JOHN VANDERCAR.

Witnesses:

T. B. MosHER, ALEX. F. ROBERTS.4 

